Cussonia. } LXX. ARALIACE® (HIERN). 33 
94-204 in. long, terete, striate. Leaves digitate,’ with 6-9 leaflets ; 
ovate, broad near the base, but narrowed at the very base, much acumi- 
nate or subcaudate at the apex, thinly coriaceous, serrate, about 5 in. 
long, on stalks 14 to 3 in. long, which bear at or near the top glands 
or even teeth, and which in places tend to be winged. Stipules linear- 
lanceolate, 14 in. long. Inflorescence consisting of several erect racemes 
crowded at the ends of the branches; bracteoles deltoid-acuminate, 
pubescent ; rachis spongy, pubescent, with tawny setose hairs. Flowers 
on pedicels ;4;—} in. long, rather crowded, green. Margin of the calyx 
sinuoso-5-dentate. Petals deltoid-lanceolate ; filaments not exceeding 
the petals. Epigynous disk rather shortly conical, with several longi- 
tudinal ridges in fruit, continuous with the short column of the bitid 
styles, which are recurved in fruit. Fruit dry, ovoid, } in. long.— 
Spherodendron angolense, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1865, p. 34, t. 26, et 
Rev. Heder. 37, t. 1. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, 2400-3800 ft. alt., fl. Dee., fr. March ; 
Huilla, 3800-5500 ft. alt.; Ambaca, fr. October, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Orper LXX. RUBIACEZ. (By W. P. Hiern.) 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular and symmetrical, rarely ir- 
regular or unsymmetrical, sometimes dimorphic. Calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary ; limb-various. Corolla inserted on the ovary, various in 
form and estivation. Stamens usually isomerous with the corolla- 
lobes, inserted at the month or throat or on the tube of the corolla ; 
laments various; anthers usually oblong or linear, 2-celled, dehiscing 
by lateral slits towards the face, rarely connivent and dehiscing by 
apical pores ; attached at the back or base. Disk at the top of the 
ovary, between the insertion of the corolla and that of the style, 
usually annular or cushion-shaped, sometimes inconspicuous or lobed. 
Ovary 1-12-celled, usually 2-celled; style solitary, entire toothed 
cleft or partite ; stigma terminal, various in form, entire or lobed ; 
placentas on the septum or at one of the extremities of the cells. 
Vules solitary or indefinite or a few in each cell, variously attached to 
or impressed on the placentas. Fruit various. Seeds albuminous ; 
aibumen copious or scanty, uniform or occasionally ruminated ; embryo 
straight or curved. 
hrubs or trees, or in some genera herbs, occasionally scandent ; 
Tarely spinous. Leaves opposite or verticillate, simple, quite entire 
(or rarely repand-dentate) ; stipules inter- or intra-petiolar, various in 
Pe, persistent or deciduous, entire, cut or lobed, free or connate or 
nate to the leaf-base or petiole, absent (or foliaceous) in the tribe 
eaeaa Inflorescence various, bracteate or ebracteate; flowers usu- 
y tetramerous or pentamerous, but sometimes even decamerous ; 
Tarely the calyx is spathaceous or the corolla only trimerous. 
on of the largest. Natural Orders, chiefly tropical and subtropical, and most 
- y represented in America. About 30 genera are endemic to this Flora, and 3 
ere described for the first time. 
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